gambrel

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English

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Etymology

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Uncertain, perhaps from Old Northern French gamberel, from gambe (leg).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡæmbɹəl/
    • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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gambrel (plural gambrels)

  1. The hind leg of a horse; the hock.
  2. (chiefly historical and obsolete outside dialects) A bar, usually metal, with a central loop and a hook at each end, used to hang a carcass for butchering.
    • 1997, Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 307:
      Within two hours the hog - killed, scalded, and scraped of its hair - was hanging pale from a big tree limb by a gambrel stick run through the tendons of its hind feet
  3. A kind of meathook shaped roughly like a horse's hind leg.
    Synonym: gambrel hook
  4. (US, architecture) A gambrel roof.

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Verb

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gambrel (third-person singular simple present gambrels, present participle gambrelling or gambreling, simple past and past participle gambrelled or gambreled)

  1. To truss or hang up using a gambrel.

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